Limnogeology: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities

This book honors the career of Professor Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch who was a pioneer and leader in the field of limnogeology since the 1980s. Her work was instrumental in guiding students and professionals in the field until her untimely death in 2016. This collection of chapters was written by her colleagues and students and recognize the important role that Professor Gierlowski-Kordesch had in advancing the field of limnogeology. The chapters show the breadth of her reach as these have been contributed from virtually every continent. This book will be a primary reference for scientists, professionals and graduate students who are interested in the latest advances in limnogeologic processes and basin descriptions in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and China. *Free supplementary material available online for chapters 3,11,12 and 13. Access by searching for the book on link.springer.com

Auteur

Michael R. Rosen

Michael R. Rosen is a Research Scientist and Water Quality Specialist for Research at the U.S. Geological Survey, California Water Science Center. His research interests center around delineating the history of contaminants in modern lakes, rivers, and groundwater in the western United States, Australia and central Asia. In addition, he has worked extensively on the paleoclimate, paleohydrology, and geochemical evolution of playas and Holocene saline lakes.

David B. Finkelstein

David B. Finkelstein is an Associate Professor in the Geoscience Department at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. His research interests include the biogeochemical and geochemical evolution of modern and ancient lacustrine deposits and the signatures of biomass burning events.

Lisa Park Boush

Lisa Park Boush is Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Connecticut as well as Professor of Geosciences in the Department of Geosciences. Her research interests include Earth system processes and the reconstruction of past climate history and its impact on biological, coastal and lacustrine ecosystems.

Sila Pla-Pueyo

Sila Pla-Pueyo is a carbonate sedimentologist whose research focuses on the paleoenvironmental characterization of ancient river, wetland and lake records, related to early human occupation in Europe and Northern Africa. She also develops research on how geoscience is taught in bilingual contexts (Spanish-English) in southern Spain.

Contenu

Dedication to Beth

Forward

Introduction - Editors Limnogeology: A tribute to Beth Gierlowski-Kordesch

Essay - Fieldwork with Beth - Suparna Goswami

1. Lacustrine Processes

1.1. Lisa Park-Bousch, The Estuary Effect and the Origin of Lacustrine Faunas--Linking Global Tectonics, Sea Level and Biodiversity.

1.2. Blas Valero-Garces et al., Lacustrine clastic carbonates

2. African Lake 2.1. Renaut, RW and Owen, RB Carbonate sedimentation in the Kenya Rift Valley

2.2. Scott, J.J., Buatois, L.A., Renaut, R.W., and Owen, R.B., Modern and ancient animal traces in hydrothermal and hypersaline extreme environments of the Kenya Rift Valley

3. European lakes

3.1. Pla Pueyo, Sila Synthesis of work in the Guadix Basin, Spain.

3.2. Maryam Moshayedi, Olaf K. Lenz, Volker Wilde, Matthias Hinderer, Lake level fluctuations and allochthonous lignite deposition in an Eocene pull-apart basin (Prinz von Hessen, Hesse, Germany): orbital versus tectonic control. A palynological study

3.3 Manfred Rösch, Elske Fischer, Lucas Kämpf, Jutta Lechterbeck, Elena Marinova, Gegeensuvd Tserendorj, Lucia Wick, Mathias Hinderer, Antje Schwalb: Palaeoenvironmental research on South-west German lakes a story going back some years.

3.4. Calvo, José P. (UCM), Gómez-Gras, David (UAB) and Rodríguez-Pascua, Miguel A. (IGME). Large-scale slumps and associated resedimented deposits in Miocene lake basins from SE Spain.

3.5. Arenas-Abad, C. and colleagues, Lacustrine and fluvial microbialites in the Neogene of the Ebro Basin.

4. North America

4.1. David B. Finkelstein, Aubrey Phillips, and Snowden Jones Internal waves as drivers of chemical change in Seneca Lake, NY

4.2. Nicoll, Kathleen Review of Great Salt Lake and Bonneville Basin modern history.

4.3. Israde, Isabel Paleoenvironmental evolution during the last 17,000 years in Lake Zirahuen based on diatoms record of two cores

4.4. Blas Valero-Garces et al, The Late Quaternary evolution of the Chalco Basin, Mexico.

4.5. Rosen et al. Mid-Holocene changes in Big Soda Lake limnology, NV caused by hydrologic events.

4.6. Starratt, Scott. The diatom perspective on Holocene moisture variability in the San Bernardino Mountains, California, USA

4.7. Oviatt, Jack, the Holocene history of fluctuations of Great Salt Lake (reviewing shoreline and sediment-core records)

4.8. Last, Fawn, no title

5. South America

5.1. Cecilia A. Benavente, Adriana C. Mancuso, Kevin Bohacs, Regional paleoclimate and hydrology patterns from two sub-basins of the Triassic Cuyana rift, Argentina

6.China

6.1. Zaixing Jiang, Sedimentary system of the modern Qinghai Lake

Conclusions or Way Forward - Editors

Index